Hi William,
Why spending so many hours trying to calibrate your
scanner, colour space, removing dust into photoshop, when
you have a superb camera with enough resolution to print out
an A4 photo with 200 dpi!!! If I were you I won´t think it
twice.
Dave
William Biesele wrote:
>
> I dropped by a local photo store today. One part of the counter was
> draped with a Olympus cloth and on top of the cloth was a selection of
> digital Oly gear including an E10. The Olympus rep was behind the
> counter along with the store's sales reps. The store rep was showing a
> Nikon D1 to a customer when I picked up the E10, the store rep stopped
> talking to his customer and started saying how great the E10 was.
>
> The E10 is an impressive piece of equipment; felt good in the hands,
> bright viewfinder display (not as bright as OM's) included shutter speed
> and aperture. The lens focused smoothly in manual focus, and the zoom
> also felt smooth. The manual focus ring apparently controls the focus
> motor and is not marked for focus distance or depth of field.
>
> Downside: Confusing selection of buttons and knobs to control all the
> functions; even the Olympus rep found one he hadn't seen before and he's
> had one for over a month (RTFM).
>
> There is a built in flash, a pc connecter and a hot shoe for a dedicated
> unit, four different flash cords are available. It has a remote
> available and a 10M (?) remote cord. A macro attachment lens will be
> available early next year, and the 420mm in the summer.
>
> The shutter sound is a choice of a beep, none, a OM1 shutter, or an OM
> motor drive.
>
> The zuikolic in me is very tempted, they'll have some available next
> week for $1995 which is believe is list price. The choice for me is
> either a slide/film scanner or the E10, going to be a tough choice.
>
> Bill B.
>
> p.s. the olympus rep didn't take me up on my offer of a mint OM1n for
> the E10.
>
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